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First GlassFish v3 Screencast

It is still early in the cycle of
GlassFish v3 but
Jerome has a demo.
All caveats apply,
but if you are a hard-core geek you will want to check out the
screencast and the
blog.

GlassFish v3 is the future of GlassFish,
we want a server-side Java container that will scale from very small to fully-featured,
that loads services on demand, and has low resource comsumption.
Loading on demand yields fast startup:
Jerome's demo starts in less than a second.

Jerome
will talk more about this at
GlassFish Day
and during
JavaOne.
A preemptive comment:
our approach to modularization is very pragmatic,
as described by Jerome in some of the comments in
EclipseZone
and elsewhere.
In particular, we expect to support some level of
OSGi
or other but
the details will depend on the technical discussion in the GlassFish community.

I really do hope the GlassFish community will decide on modularity technology on technical grounds. As I don't follow the mailing lists, I'd love you to post a follow-up blog summarising the rationale for whatever technology you decide to use. Apart from helping to make the modularity discussion more objective, this exercise should be a valuable source of requirements for OSGi/JSR 291, JSR 277, and JSR 294.

Alex - The DEV alias carries quite a bit of technical discussions for the current release. Jerome is planning a new set of discussions on the Modular System/V3 but we were thinking of a more memorable name than "modsys" and we are waiting on a trademark check (one of the consequences/benefits of working in a large company with processes for things like this). I'll do a spotlight when we settle the mailing list, which I hope will be very soon. - eduard/o